[PATCH 20/21] perf bpf: Include uapi/linux/bpf.h from the 'perf trace' script's bpf.h

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Aug 01 2018 - 17:38:10 EST


From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

The next example scripts need the definition for the BPF functions, i.e.
things like BPF_FUNC_probe_read, and in time will require lots of other
definitions found in uapi/linux/bpf.h, so include it from the bpf.h file
included from the eBPF scripts build with clang via '-e bpf_script.c'
like in this example:

$ tail -8 tools/perf/examples/bpf/5sec.c
#include <bpf.h>

int probe(hrtimer_nanosleep, rqtp->tv_sec)(void *ctx, int err, long sec)
{
return sec == 5;
}

license(GPL);
$

That 'bpf.h' include in the 5sec.c eBPF example will come from a set of
header files crafted for building eBPF objects, that in a end-user
system will come from:

/usr/lib/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h

And will include <uapi/linux/bpf.h> either from the place where the
kernel was built, or from a kernel-devel rpm package like:

-working-directory /lib/modules/4.17.9-100.fc27.x86_64/build

That is set up by tools/perf/util/llvm-utils.c, and can be overriden
by setting the 'kbuild-dir' variable in the "llvm" ~/.perfconfig file,
like:

# cat ~/.perfconfig
[llvm]
kbuild-dir = /home/foo/git/build/linux

This usually doesn't need any change, just documenting here my findings
while working with this code.

In the future we may want to instead just use what is in
/usr/include/linux/bpf.h, that comes from the UAPI provided from the
kernel sources, for now, to avoid getting the kernel's non-UAPI
"linux/bpf.h" file, that will cause clang to fail and is not what we
want anyway (no BPF function definitions, etc), do it explicitely by
asking for "uapi/linux/bpf.h".

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zd8zeyhr2sappevojdem9xxt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h b/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
index dd764ad5efdf..a63aa6241b7f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#ifndef _PERF_BPF_H
#define _PERF_BPF_H
+
+#include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
+
#define SEC(NAME) __attribute__((section(NAME), used))

#define probe(function, vars) \
--
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